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Between St Martin in the Fields Anglican Church and Britain’s National Portrait Gallery on the corner of London’s Trafalgar Square stands a monument to a woman executed for spying in 1915. For a whole
century Britain’s governments, their agencies and collaborators denied she was a spy.
Tens of thousands of quixotic suckers flocked to the British colours, and decorated the earth with their own and others’ red blood to avenge the execution (which was acceptable according to the laws of war) for a blatant and damnable lie.
Finally in 2015 a former Director of British Military Intelligence (MI5), Dame Stella Rimington definitively declared that Edith Cavell, by passing information to the British, had indeed earned her place before a firing squad.
Would that the chief liars in Britain’s Establishment and their collaborators in passing misinformation had faced a similar squad? That would have saved countless lives.
Edith Cavell’s name is inscribed in the Church of England’s Calendar of Saints. Could the Influence employed in dissuading the Archbishop of Canterbury from asking for clemency for Roger Casement be related to the influence in Cavell’s
Canonisation? It’s a murky world at the top of the British Establishment. I’m surprised Stella Rimington got away with pulling back the curtain, even a tiny bit.
Recently Prince William unveiled a monument in London to Frank Foley of MI6 who, with Guy Liddell of MI5 in discharging their duties to His Majesty King George V collaborated with the Nazis, according to an unchallenged and detailed talk by Frances Stonor Saunders given in the British Museum and reported verbatim in The London Review of Books on 9 April 2015.
Either Ms Saunders was mistaken or Prince William has been sold a pup.
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